“My best friends are all either bottomless skeptics or quite uncontrollable believers . . . .”

“Johnson is a radical skeptic, insisting, in the best Socratic tradition, that everything be put on the table for examination. By contrast, most skeptics opposed to him are selective skeptics, applying their skepticism to the things they dislike (notably religion) and refusing to apply their skepticism to the things they do like (notably Darwinism). On two occasions I’ve urged Michael Shermer, publisher of Skeptic Magazine, to put me on its editorial board as the resident skeptic of Darwinism. Though Shermer and I know each other and are quite friendly, he never got back to me about joining his editorial board.”

“As a child, my number one best friend was the librarian in my grade school. I actually believed all those books belonged to her.”

“i'm not sure either of them had a great capacity for love, that was all. it's funny - mine feels bottomless. ”

“I believe with all my heart that the cliches are true, that we are our own best friends and best company, and that if you're not right for yourself, it's impossible to be right for anyone.”

“She loved me coming and going, at my worst and at my best. She had a bottomless well of love for me.”